Outdoor World Indoors

A combination hunting store and taxidermy museum. Lifelike animals posed and balanced precariously amidst waterfalls and ponds stocked with fish, ducks and turtles. Man-made nature in the comfort of the indoors, where you can purchase the latest technological advantage to hunt your beast of choice.

Diver feeds the rays and gives a play by play.
As usual, nature draws SRO.
I can't help but wonder, "Will someday soon this be all there is?"

Look! My name in lights. Kinda.

Headed downtown to Vintage Vegas
in search of slots that dropped coins instead of slips of paper.

KaCHING! Clink, clink, clink, clink, clink. . .

Won $250
The 'chi' is with me.
Life is good.
:)

All you need is LOVE. . .

All the money in the world
can't guarantee success.

Beatle's music
Soleil staging
What could top that?

YIKES!

How about heart and soul?

No matter how much confetti,
flying limbs
colorful costuming
dazzling lighting
levels of stages
projections, fog, streamers,
parachutes, umbrellas, trampolines
ladders, wheels, zany characters,
etc., etc.

it's difficult to improve on
music that wasn't
written as accompaniment.

What's that I feel?
A speed bump?
Or John Lennon turning over in his grave?

The sound system was as perfect as it could get,
for reproduced music.

I would have rather sat there with my eyes closed
and traveled into my own visual imagery,
than feel befuddled and let down
by every trick in the book
trying to impress me.

SOLD OUT
the slot machines say it all.

Colorado Springs In & Out

3/4 moon and snowcapped mountains
highway disorientation
can't tell up from down
except by the sound of the engine.
Midnight travels
the road unrolls before us
as the painted lines curve
from side to side
over and under
around and down the mountains.
Matte black
when the moon is hidden
behind the jaggedy edges
slippery water reflection
guardrails glisten
tunnels hum.
Miles counted in time
fall behind us
one by one.
In the midst of mountains
you realize
anything is possible
everything already is.

Loveland Pass

A word to the wise.
If you purchase a vehicle
that has been sitting perhaps
for awhile
and one tire blows
replace the rest.
Because they are probably
dry rotted and will
be chewed by the road.
Mmmm, munch, munch, munch.
This would be #4.

Pikes's Peak vs Peak Oil

These Swiss railcars are self-contained units, powered by two Cummins diesel engines mounted underneath the seating area. They are diesel-pneumatic. Generators driven by the diesel engines provide the power to traction motors for the ascent. The braking is done through a pneumatic retardation system, and the diesel engines must idle on the return trip.

Almost there. A brief stop at the Marmot hotel.
The whistling, yellow-bellied marmots are too cute!

The view was awesome. The windy gusts blew my hat off my head. Feeling light-headed from the altitude I wasn't about to chase it to the edge of the cliff. It was frigid cold and felt like pure chaos as the wind whipped into a frenzy. They closed the auto road and we re-boarded for the ride down.

Fade to black

Came across this article about peak oil. Wake up, wake up, up wake!
:)

Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore

JUMBO LOVE ART
In front of the Mid-America Center
Council Bluffs, NE

Horseshoe Casino
right next door,
'cause, well, LOVE is always a
GAMBLE.

Saturday night I was rousted from a deep sleep when the trailer shook. Hearing sirens I knew something was up. Glancing at the clock, the time was 2:37am. The wind wasn't letting up and the rain was whipping the tent. A knock at the door as the cat trainer said, "Hey, tornado in the next town. People are going in the building." The old joke about trailers being tornado magnets suddenly came to mind. Ha, ha, NOT funny. Threw on some clothes and went into the ele tent. "Grab a hook!" Huh? Okay, tail up. And we led the girls inside. They were calm and attentive, curious as to why the sudden need to be led into the building in the middle of the night. We fed and watered them and hung out for awhile. The winds died down and we put them back to bed.

Next day, one show, and tear down, the sky was cloudy but the rain stayed away.
Driving west the sky was amazing. . .

Stopped for coffee the next morning, at LOVE'S travel oasis on Bison Hwy in Hudson, CO and had the great pleasure of meeting B-ball all star Bill and his sidekick Bev.
Nicest folks you could ask for. Baby Ruth's 2 for 1.
Thanks! Ah, clear skies ahead and life is good!